When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.
BEN STILLERThere’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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Fashion is so over the top.
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I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
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I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.
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I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary.
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A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
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I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it’s called bipolar manic depression. I’ve got a rich history of that in my family.
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I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
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People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, ‘I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.’
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When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don’t think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.
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I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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God was showing off when he made you.
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It’s weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I’m expected to be humorous on talk shows.
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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